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nomical clock in this city, which is regulated by a transit instru- 

 ment, and compared the watch again on the following morning. 

 The clouds prevented my seeing any thing of the moon until about 

 11 o'clock; at which time, though still in the real shadow, she was 

 shining with comparative brightness, by the refracted light of the 

 earth's atmosphere. Precisely at 18 minutes past 11, she began 

 to emerge from this partial illumination into the direct rays of the 

 sun; and allowing 10 m 20 s for the difference of longitude between 

 Bristol and Greenwich, we find the time of the emersion at Green, 

 wich to be 1 l h 28*3 m , agreeing with the Almanac almost exactly. 



" The refracted light thrown on the moon while in the earth's 

 shadow was so strong as to surprise every beholder ; and this light, 

 no doubt, was the ignis fatuus which led your correspondents so 

 far astray. 



" Leaving, however, these gentlemen to explain their mistake in 

 the best manner they can, I may safely assert, without the smallest 

 fear of contradiction, that the predicted time of the emersion, at 

 least, was quite correct, several other persons present agreeing with 

 me as to that part of the phenomenon, and the same being further 

 confirmed by two scientific gentlemen, with whom I conversed on 

 the following day. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, 



" Thos. G. Bunt." 



In his " Notices to Correspondents," the editor of the Literary 

 Gazette has acknowledged the receipt of another letter from a 

 Mr. Smith of Newry, confirming the truth of the predictions of the 

 Almanac in reference to the eclipse, and accounting for the mis- 

 take of Mr. Adams and J. T. B. in the same manner as 1 have done 

 above. 



SOME REMARKS ON THE BUSHMEN OF THE ORANGE RIVER*. 

 BY LEWIS LESLIE, ESQ. ASSISTANT SURGEON, 45TH RJEGT. 



In that neighbourhood f , and along the Hornberg, purer exam- 

 ples of that extraordinary race are perhaps nowhere to be found; 

 and whatever follows, regards only them, and may differ from any 

 account of other portions of the tribes along the African frontier. 

 Small in stature as the Hottentot race is, they are, in the quarter 

 mentioned, less than any where else, seldom exceeding five feet, 

 but of the most perfect symmetry ; they are active in their move- 

 ments, but indolent in disposition ; their colour is dark, but is ren- 

 dered still darker by filth ; their features are peculiarly forbidding, 

 on account of the great distortion of the bones of the face; and 

 the facial angle approaches considerably to that of the monkey. 

 The Bushman will seldom submit to coercion and restraint, — if he 

 does, he becomes the Boor's most wretched menial, and perhaps is 

 worse treated than any slave in the world. In the state of liberty, 

 they dwell in kraals, under the authority of a chief, whose rank is 

 among them hereditary. The number in one kraal seldom exceeds 



* From the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. 



T The writer refers to a military post, which was situated on a branch 

 of the Orange River, known by the name of Nurgariep, or Black River, 

 and close to the country inhabited by the Tambookies. 



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